This online training helps educators by providing a lens of relational equity and cultural competency for the purpose of improving student engagement through effective classroom management that focuses on student to educator relationships and student to student relationships. The purpose of educator relationships is to increase student hope and resiliency as the greatest factor towards graduation and individual success.

Objectives:

Understand how to operationalize relational equity in the classroom.

Demonstrate cultural competency - “The will and skill to create authentic and effective relationships across difference”- in the classroom.

Demonstrate the use of Cultural Competency Norms as a reflective guide to deescalate behavior violations through relational strategies.

Understand and apply the research on student hope and resiliency in the school culture.

Second Session

This online training helps educators by providing a lens of relational equity and cultural competency for the purpose of improving student engagement through effective classroom management that focuses on student to educator relationships and student to student relationships. The purpose of educator relationships is to increase student hope and resiliency as the greatest factor towards graduation and individual success.

Implement strategies based on relational equity that effectively work with students who struggle with low resiliency.

Demonstrate the definition of Cultural Competency as a lens for classroom management for the diverse student populations including, but not limited to socio-economic, language, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, gender, religion, age and ability.

Use the cultural competency framework of awareness, understanding, skills and advocacy to increase effectiveness with students from diverse populations.

Apply the three universal truths of resiliency research for effective student engagement and classroom management that focuses on asset-based instruction.

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Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement to this foundation. Free collective bargaining is good for the entire Nation. In my view, it is the only alternative to State regulation of wages and prices - a path which leads far down the grim road of totalitarianism. Those who would destroy or further limit the rights of organized labor - those who would cripple collective bargaining or prevent organization of the unorganized - do a disservice to the cause of democracy.

John F. Kennedy

The collective bargaining agreement, or contract, establishes the rights and working conditions (including pay) for the members of Bates PTEs, CPEA, ESPCP, SCEA, SEA, UPCA, UPEA, and UPOP. Collective bargaining is the process used by the members of ESPCP to advocate for improved working conditions, fair wages, and to set limits on the power of the employer to act without representation.

The power of collective bargaining is the power of the group to take united action. One employee has little power or influence and can easily be dismissed as a complainer or malcontent. Together, speaking with one voice at the bargaining table, your local promotes the common interests and ideas of all members to address workplace issues.

Through collective bargaining, you have the protection of due process and the ability to use the grievance process in situations where a supervisor or the employer acts unfairly or arbitrarily. Collective bargaining increases the wages and hours of employees in the bargaining unit. Over the last five years wages in our classified units have increased more than 25% on average. These are real gains for members worth thousands of dollars each year and would not have been possible without collective bargaining.

In addition, member issues that involve potential loss of hours, layoff, transfer, and evaluation can all be addressed using the collective bargaining agreement, and the contract language providing employee protection is reinforced and improved as part of the bargaining process.

The contractual agreement between the your local union and the District provides a venue for members of the bargaining unit to meet management as equals and stand up for the rights of workers to be treated with the respect they deserve, the respect they earn doing the important work that is necessary in providing a quality education of the students they serve.